Meme: 100 books

[starrylizard]

Snaffled from wings128

The BBC thinks you will have read 6 of the books on this list.

Copy and paste the list, then bold the books you have read.
Italicize books you never completed.
Then sum up with a head count, or a comment.

1 - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 - The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 - Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 - Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 - To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 - The Bible

7 - Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 - Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 - His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
(This is the title for the trilogy that includes The Golden Compass)

10 - Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 - Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 - Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 - Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 - Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 - Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 - The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 - Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 - The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 - Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 - Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 - The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

23 - Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24 - War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 - The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

26 - Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 - Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 - Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 - Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 - The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 - Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 - David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 - Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 - Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 - The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
(This book is the second in the Chronicles of Narnia series)

37 - The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 - Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 - Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 - Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41 - Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 - The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43 - One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 - A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 - The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 - Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 - Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 - The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 - Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 - Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 - Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 - Dune - Frank Herbert

53 - Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 - Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55 - A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth.

56 - The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 - A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 - Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 - Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 - Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 - Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 - The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 - The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 - Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 - On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 - Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 - Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 - Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 - Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 - Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 - Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 - The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 - Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 - Ulysses - James Joyce

76 - The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

77 - Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 - Germinal - Emile Zola

79 - Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 - Possession - AS Byatt.

81 - A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 - Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 - The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 - The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 - Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 - A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 - Charlotte’s Web - EB White

88 - The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 - The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 - Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 - The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 - The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 - Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 - A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 - A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 - The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 - Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 - Les Miserables - Victor Hugo


Books read: 14
Books started but never finished: 2
Books left to read: LOTS!

Comments

[wings128.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed "His Dark Materials", as expected the books were so much better than the film.

The Chronicles of Narnia were books I read out loud to my kids.

[blackrabbit42.livejournal.com]

I've read 44 of those, about half of which were for high school literature class. But I'm so thrilled Watership Down is on the list. My all-time fave!

:)

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

I've read 18!

Which is more than the 6 the BBC thinks I might have read, but still pretty rubbish I suppose.

*HUGS*

[ex1led-nyer.livejournal.com]

I have read 63, I started but never finished 5, I intend to read 2. Blackrabbit42, I will make Watership Down a priority!

It's not that I'm that avid a reader (except of fanfic, which has ruined my life :^) ), but I've been around awhile and spent a long time in school, and several of these were required reading.

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed "His Dark Materials", as expected the books were so much better than the film.
Ah, so many people liked those books! I got bored toward the end of the first one and didn't read the rest. I do agree the film was pretty bad.

On the other hand, I adored the Chronicles of Narnia. Read them to pieces as a kid. Though I only realised Aslan was "God" as an adult. ;)

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

I may have read some of the others, but I don't remember. If I did they didn't make much of an impact. I've seen film and theater adaptations of several of them though. Watership Down the movie made me ball my eyes out as a kid. Poor bunnies!

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Four more than me, it would seem. :D
*HUUUUGS*

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I seem to have missed a lot of "required reading" at school. We often watched the film or went to a play. I suspect I've read more of them, but just don't remember. I tend to live in the moment and have a terrible memory. I do love books, though. :)

[wings128.livejournal.com]

I had trouble getting myself to pick up the second book, but it was better than the first, and at the time I really needed the escape reading offered.

Yes, Chronicles of Narnia is a fabulous read. Well, it is a complicated concept to get when you're a kid and there's talking animals and adventures in the wardrobe to enjoy :)

[lark_ascends]

I think I've got 28 off the list.